Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no question that Torp and his friends were tempting fate. They set out despite storm and avalanche warnings. During their sojourn, the skiers repeatedly heard the roar of snowslides letting loose. "It was sheer luck they didn't get caught in one," says Doug Bitterman, the avalanche forecaster who posted that day's warnings. Nearly three dozen avalanches rumbled through the area, posing an enormous risk to the rescuers...
...Whatever the causes, our sexuality is not a choice," Machtinger said. "But to politicians deciding the fate of gay civil rights issues, it's important...
Bess Wohl's performance of Green Eyes is one-sided. Her character convincingly grapples with the poetics of existentialist fate and the maddening embrace of nihilism, but lacks the raw masculine coolness, control, and beauty that give Genet's character his depth and charisma. However, this weakness is compensated by both LeFranc's and Maurice's credible attraction for him, an attraction which renders Green Eyes more full than Wohl's performance alone...
...stores which best serve consumer needs not only do prosper but should prosper. And stores that don't do so deserve their fate. Thus we say good riddance to the poor selection of Reading International and the choking dust of The Bookcase...
...tentative just at the point when the impatient reader, perhaps unrealistically, demands certainty. Take Kennedy on climate change: "Little of this is clear at present, although once again most scientists guess that the effects of global warming will be deleterious rather than beneficial." Or his view of the fate of the former Soviet Union: "So severe and complex is the crisis that the only certain fact is the existence of innumerable uncertainties...